DOES SCIENCE NEED PHILOSOPHY

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TOPIC: DOES SCIENCE NEED PHILOSOPHY
Based on Feynman, "Philosophy Of Science is all about being useful to Scientist as Ornithology is to birds". So perhaps no other branch of philosophy, ethics logic, or the Philosophy of Language, is of any to Scientist as Science.
In contrast to Feynman, Eistein believed in the significance and educational value of methodology as well as history and Philosophy of Science. He believes these subjects are important to everyday science. In this aspect Desiderio Murcho argued that Philosophy is of value to scientist. Same vein as Eistein, Murcho argues that philosophy is of value to scientist not just for methodology reasons when they face foundational problems, but also for theoretical and broader educational reasons.
"A Post-graduate science students have spent their entire lives as students learning what is known and now they face competing theories and hypothesis and have to come up with some sort of original scientific result which, by definition, was not previously known. Philosophy can help science students do that because that is what we do in philosophy".
In studying philosophy for the first time, it could be puzzling unlike the natural sciences. This is so because in the natural sciences, student are not expected to evaluate the truth-claims of established theories against competing theories because there are no competing theories. In philosophy there is no agreed solution for most philosophical problems. Instead of having a body of well established theories we have large body of competing theories.
According to Murcho Philosophy is unavoidable as he quote Aristotle Logical Syllogism
If you should Philosophize, then you should Philosophize
If you should not Philosophize, then you should Philosophize
            Therefore, in any case, you should Philosophize
Somehow the Second premises looks contradicting, but what Aristotle was trying to make known was that in other to argue that we should not philosophize, we must have use philosophical argument, thus defeating the purpose of the argument.
If Science should address those matters about which Knowledge is at least possible, then the responsibilities of science will turn on the nature, extent and grounds of knowledge. And this is a matter for epistemology; the study of the nature, extent and justification of knowledge. And this means that Philosophy is unavoidable by Science and Philosophy is inescapable, even by those who hold that in the end all real question, all question worth answering, can only be answered by Science, which only a philosophical argument can underwrite this claim.





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